13 August, 2010

It was revealed on the 11th that the Korea Trade Insurance Corporation K-Sure has provided drama KBS2′s ‘SungKyunKwan Scandal’ with two billion Won in culture exportation insurance.
Thanks to K-Sure’s support, Raemong Raein, the company in charge of the drama, has been able to get a two billion Won loan from the bank for their 6.7 billion Won production costs and is planning to repay this loan with the profits made from domestic and overseas exportation of the drama.
SungKyunKwan Scandal has both a cinematic and crowd-attracting quality as it was chosen as the ’2010 Global Frontier Project’ drama by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency as well as the most awaited drama of the second half of 2010 by netizens.A representative of K-Sure stated, “Dramas are the representative Hallyu Culture product with them accounting for 90% of televised contents exports,” and “K-Sure’s support for KBS dramas will continue as KBS has continued to create popular dramas such as ‘Iris’, ‘Marry Me’ and ‘SungKyunKwan Scandal’.”

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